And yet, as the weather warms, and we take tentative steps outside, teenagers will begin to navigate their own desire for face-to-face contact and socializing and their need to stay safe in the pandemic.
As parents work to support teenagers’ emotional and physical well-being this spring and summer, let’s not forget the ways this pandemic has interrupted their sexual development. Teens are supposed to be establishing new intimate relationships outside of the family.
Just as COVID-19 has required parents to have difficult and frank conversations with the teens about health risks, the pandemic provides an opportunity for parents to have frank conversations about sexuality and safety as well.
Rubee created an Instagram account that spreads positivity one dog at a time. It started when she was working at Kid Sister Ice Cream in Fan Tan Alley and feeding the local pups waffle cones (with the human’s permission, of course). She had the idea of creating a platform showcasing the joyful and hilarious personalities she would meet on a daily basis.
Now, @RubeeMeetsDogs has over 800 followers and continues to bring much needed joy to Victorians in such a dark time.
When Michael Williams undertook his first restoration project, the William Grimms Carriage Factory on Johnson Street, partway into work on part of the building the entire front façade collapsed. Architect Peter Cotton designed a new one, based on old photographs of the 1870s original. So, the building is not original. It’s new. The original design has been reconstructed. So, what has this to do with a small assembly of European historic restoration experts who gathered in Athens in 1931 to professionalize what we call today “heritage conservation”? Their discussions were certainly an urgent response to what they deemed to be a major threat to historic monuments: the fast-rising popularity of new approaches to urban planning.